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final exam - the information Flashcards

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alphabet

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founding technology of information

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John F. Carrington

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English missionary, eastern Zaire, Kele language, talking drums

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talking drums

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extra drum beats provide context, disambiguation through redundancy, not signaling but talking

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Walter Ong

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primary orality (speech), secondary orality (electronic), oral literature-“wrong” horses as autos without wheels, language not a technology

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Chinese

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complex writing system, signs represent meaningful units of sound,

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syllabary

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intermediate stage - phonetic writing system using individual characters to represent syllables

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alphabet

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most reductive, one symbol for one minimal sound, arose near Med.Sea, 1500 BCE

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literature predates alphabet

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transmission aided by meter, redundancy

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Aristotle

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attempting to systematize knowledge, impose structure on what was know about the world and known about knowing

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